Senior Software Engineer at KBR
Colorado Springs, CO
$115,900–$173,800from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Colorado Springs, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining high-velocity data stream processing systems in support of Air Force Research Laboratory prototype projects. The work spans the full development lifecycle — from requirements analysis and software architecture through deployment, troubleshooting, and documentation — and includes leading code reviews and mentoring junior engineers. Candidates must hold an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and bring solid experience with distributed or high-throughput systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · Colorado Springs, CO · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,233 (middle half $108,638–$170,529). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role has two possible locations: Colorado Springs, CO (primary, with comp range $115,900–$173,800) and Beavercreek Township, OH (comp range $110,400–$165,500). The Colorado Springs CBSA and comp range are used here as the primary location listed first.
Java is listed as the primary OOP language example with 4+ years required; Python is named as an explicit alternative in the same requirement. The underlying gate is on any object-oriented language, but Java and Python are the only named options.
'Distributed systems' and 'high-throughput data processing' are combined into a single gate as they appear in one requirement clause; no specific framework or platform is named.
MIL-STD-6016 and MIL-STD-3011 are listed under Desired Qualifications — these are military data link standards, not software tools, so they are omitted from the skills list rather than forced into a technology skill.
CI/CD, TDD, Agile, and Security+ all appear under Desired Qualifications and are marked preferred accordingly.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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